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Storage Virtualization Strategies for the CIO

In this engaging virtual environment, CIOs will uncover webcasts and podcasts featuring storage expert Marc Staimer. Staimer discusses three primary storage strategies for a virtual environment: an integrated approach, a server/hypervisor approach and a storage-centric approach and the pros and cons of each.

Staimer also delves into the performance and capacity gotchas CIOs encounter in a virtual environment and explores the advantages of traditional storage such as NAS versus SAN in a virtual environment.

Speaker

Marc Staimer
Founder and CDS,
Dragon Slayer Consulting

Marc Staimer is the founder, senior analyst, and CDS of Dragon Slayer Consulting in Beaverton, OR. The consulting practice of over 12 years has focused in the areas of strategic planning, product development, and market development for technology products. With over 30 years of marketing, sales and business experience in infrastructure, storage, server, software, and virtualization, he’s considered one of the industry’s leading experts.

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